The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-05


And on the side panels are the names of
the ten men whose bodies were dug out of
the snow. They were living in q cabin on
the mountain side near the mine One
morning Leadville looked toward the Home
stake, rubbed her eyes, and looked again.
There was no cabin in sight-nothing but a
great mass of snow and ice, which had
slipped down and buried all. The monu-
ment stands IN the centre of q little plot of
sacred soil, down upon which the kneeling,
anguish woman looks and forever
prays.
Nature has provided a beautiful grove of
young pines, but this is all she has done for
Evergreen Cemetery The soil is the coars-
est gravel. Sod is brought from the banks
of the Arkansas, miles away. Two Mis-
sourians, the Bulls, father and son, from
near Hannibal, have charge of the ceme-
terry, and they have done much to beautify
the grounds.
THE LITTLE ONES.
The saddest of the peculiar features in
which Evergreen abounds are the little clus-
tiers of short graves "When death gets
into family here" said a Leadville man,
speaking of the mortality, ''you have no
idea how it will clean them all out" As an
illustration of this the children of Mrs Pitts
were referred to. This unfortunate woman
lost child every Wednesday and buried one
",
the Breene family-mother and three chill
dren-were carried off in one winter. Two
of the Connors children came at one trip of
the hearse, and near by are buried all the
Crilleys but the wife and mother The Nc
kennas have fourlittle graves in Evergreen
ana perhaps twenty families have as many
as three children here. The Praters-mother
and four children-lie in the Odd Fellows
lot. There are lots i'll the free ground and
the potter's field. In the free ground
only the graves are paid for, and the
Squares-five graves deep if grown persons
and six deep if children-are filed as the
bodies come, without regard to past associa-
tions There the dead lie in methodically
arranged rows
MEETINGS ON RESURRECTION MORN
When the last trump blows what strange
ly assorted groups will arise from these
solid squares of the Leadville Cemetery
Here, for instance Charles G. Window, who
took morphine at the Tabor Grand Hotel;
Richard Driver, who was killed in the
Robert e. Lee mine: Lizzie Harmon, the
actress, and Charles Stewart, hung by the
Vigilance Committee, will find themselves
near enough together to shake hands. A
little way off will be Frank Gilbert and
Merrick RoSencranZ, who were hung by
process OF law. Roseucranz shot his partner
because they were both smitten with the
shot his partner because he was not divid-
ing fair on the charcoal they were making
and selling, PAY me, or you go East in
box" Gilbert said, and the result was boxes
for two
Very near the scaffold pair are Charles
Llnnen, "a hold-up," shot while trying TO
ron somebody an unknown, who had started
to Leadville in a freight-car and was found
frozen stiff; Buchanan, who dropped dead
bO cbO
himself; John Kramer, whose bones were
found out on the boulevard when the spring
sun melted the snow year ago; and Cyrus
Munich hung last year for the murder of
sam Baldwin. The grave of Baldwin is
not far off, and the neat headstone
erected by Eastern relatives bears almost
Gne only bit of poetry in the Evergreen
Cemetery:
Dear wife and children, l must leave you,
Leave yes, leave you all alone.
But my blessed Savior calls me,
Calls Inc to a Heavenly home
,Leadville sentiment does not run TO rhyme.
IL provides Christian burial, sometimes a
piece OF marble, but oftener the wooden
headboard and the briefest possible inscrip-
tlon. Probably four ffths of the graves
snow only the name of the occupant.
ihere is neither date of birth nor date Of
death.
-
mere is one grave to which theatrical
people-are frequent visitours, and they go
away telling the sexon that in the near
future something will be done by the pro-
lesslon IN the way Of providing "a more suit
abie place for the occupant. This particular
grave is IN one of thcslIares of free ground,
ana ON the little weather beaten headboard
there can lie distinguished with much diff
Guilty the name: &c. Vivian" In the
early times of Leadville Charley Vivian
was the idol of the miners. He had salary
Oh $50 week and gave it all away" He
used to sing Ten Thousand Miles Away"
with such pathos the boys could never
get enough. Then, when he went of the
stage after the last encore, he would say
IeelinSly; IF you had learned that
song az | learned it you could sing it as
sing itn
vivian was an Englishman, with strong
nome love. His wife was well-bred, culti-
EEated woman, the daughter of a Church Of
england Clergyman in London.
But there was another song of Vivian's
over which Leadville went wilder still. 1t
was a song which voiced the reckless,
IIe,ite-tempting spirit of the new community.
VIVIAN had become the personihcation
81 mat spirit, and the song was part of him
TO THE NEXT WHO DIES.
"Hore's n honlfh To the next who dies